Avatar: The Last Airbender is an animated show on Nickelodeon. Unlike most Nick shows, this one is actually good, and has four different nations: the Air Nomads, the Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and the Water Tribe. This map has all four of these civilizations (even if the air nomads are pretty much extinct in the show).

For more information on Avatar, click here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_the_Last_Airbender

This map is based on the world map seen in the show:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Avatar_world_map.jpg


And here are some screenshots of my map:

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This is my first map that I've ever created in Civilizations 4. I've tried my best to decorate the areas explored in the show, as well as those not shown. Balance-wise, I find that the game favors the Earth Kingdom (they got the HUGE continent in the east) and playing as the Water Nation can be a challenge (you start in the North Pole, with nothing but Ice tiles!). There is also a Barbarian city (called Merchant's Pier) on the west coast of the eastern Earth Kingdom Continent. The barbs expand pretty quickly, and could almost be considered a fifth civilization in their own right :lol:

Each nation consists of a leader from the show. They are:
Air Nomads: Senior Councilor Pasang
Earth Kingdom: Earth King Kuei
Fire Nation: Fire Lord Ozai
Water Tribes: Chief Arnook

I would add an extra leader choice for all the nations (minus the Air Nomads), but I don't know how to. If you do know, I'd love to add King Bumi to the Earth Kingdom, Fire Lord Sozin for the Fire Nation, and Chief Hakoda for the Water Tribes, and re-upload the map file.

Anyways, please give feedback. I have been thinking real hard lately on an Avatar mod for Civilizations 4, and this map would definitely be a part of it.

UPDATE: Version 1.2 is here! Go to the link below to download it:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=10914

Very nice. Good job. :goodjob:

I don't usually like to watch too many cartoons with my kids but we always make it a point to be in front of the TV together on Friday nights for this one.

I'll give it a try and I encourage you to do more work on an Avatar mod. That could be cool.

Very nice. Good job. :goodjob:

I don't usually like to watch too many cartoons with my kids but we always make it a point to be in front of the TV together on Friday nights for this one.

I'll give it a try and I encourage you to do more work on an Avatar mod. That could be cool.
Thanks for the support :)

I'm trying to actually mod the tech tree, but I'm having a tough time with it :sad:

I'll keep trying my best though. I'd rather not present a thread to the community until I have actually have something to present.

nice.

if you are going to mod the game, why not go and give the water nation +1 :food: +1 :hammers: on the ice tiles? they may need some sort of bonus given such a bad starting position. or at least put more sea resources and more strategic resources on the island

nice.

if you are going to mod the game, why not go and give the water nation +1 :food: +1 :hammers: on the ice tiles? they may need some sort of bonus given such a bad starting position. or at least put more sea resources and more strategic resources on the island
I'm really starting to doubt the whole idea of a mod, since the person I was going to be modding with hasnt responded to me in over 2 weeks now (and I know I'm too busy to do all the coding alone) :(

As for the Water Tribes: I was sure to give them quite a few Fish, Whale, 3 Goody Huts, and the oasis to help them out. It is imperative that you trying teching to Caravels as quickly as you can if you play them, and then start colonizing the northern Earth Kingdom continent. Don't worry, its possible to win as Water Tribes, just REALLY tough! :crazyeye:

Now if I WAS to mod this game, then yes, I would give the snow tiles some bonuses. If you feel that I should give them more Food-related resources (like more fish along the coast) to help them out, then please tell me. I've been thinking of working on an improved version of this map. All input will be looked upon and noted :goodjob:

:goodjob:nice map, and thank you for meeting the request. i can't wait to see what else you come up with:)
ps. can u send me the file? my computer crashed recently, and i came back to download the map again but the URL isn't working

I love avatar but this map won't download. Help please

I'd really like to play this map, but the link doesn't work. Can I get a copy please?

Nice, would like to try it though, download does not work.

I wonder why you decided on the North Water Tribe instead of the Southern?

Isn't the Southern still somewhat of an actual civilization?

The north doesn't even number over a 100 people.

Hey if u need some help im here for u man i love avatar and i have some great ideas to contribute and im in it for the entire way. Contact me ill check the thread everyday even though i am not really good at modding maybe u could teach me and i could give you some ideas. C ya later

Nice, would like to try it though, download does not work.

I wonder why you decided on the North Water Tribe instead of the Southern?

Isn't the Southern still somewhat of an actual civilization?

The north doesn't even number over a 100 people.

I believe you've got them switched. Southern Water Tribe = Katara and Sokka.
Northern Water Tribe is what we saw towards the end of Book One.

I believe you've got them switched. Southern Water Tribe = Katara and Sokka.
Northern Water Tribe is what we saw towards the end of Book One.

the almighty df is right though u should get to be both

The Southern Water Tribe (as well as the waterbenders of the Swamp) originally came from the Northern Water Tribe. That's why only the Northern Tribe appears originally; because this map starts out in ancient history.

o ok didnt know it was ancient map

o ok didnt know it was ancient map
Well the fact that everyone (not just the Water Tribe) starts only at their capitals leads me to that conclusion. There are other explanations, but it makes sense regardless that both Water Tribes should be one civilization, and by extension that they should start in one place like the other civilizations.

Well the fact that everyone (not just the Water Tribe) starts only at their capitals leads me to that conclusion. There are other explanations, but it makes sense regardless that both Water Tribes should be one civilization, and by extension that they should start in one place like the other civilizations.

Problem, though.
The nations seem to be divided up into city-states. Well, maybe not all of them.

Fire Nation = unified monarchy
Earth Nation = -Seemed- like a bunch of city states
Air Nation = Not sure, but I figure since they're monks they would be somewhere between theocracy and simply autonomous monks.
Water Nation = Two seperate nations that are in a permanent alliance.

Problem, though.
The nations seem to be divided up into city-states. Well, maybe not all of them.

Fire Nation = unified monarchy
Earth Nation = -Seemed- like a bunch of city states
Air Nation = Not sure, but I figure since they're monks they would be somewhere between theocracy and simply autonomous monks.
Water Nation = Two seperate nations that are in a permanent alliance.
Is that really so much of a problem? There are a bunch of iffy civilizations in the game already. The Earth Kingdom isn't really any less cohesive than the Holy Roman Empire or, probably more intentionally, feudal China. The Southern Water Tribe is really a colony of the Northern. While geographic issues are dealt with on the show, they don't really translate to the game. Why force them?

I really like the map and look forward to it being a mod

Water bending started at the north pole
Earth bending was taught to a couple from 2 fueding villages by Badgermoles, the two fueding cities were later compined to form Omashu, yet the Earth Kingdom Capitol was Ba Sing Sa.
I don't know the origins of Fire Bending adn Air bending.
Here's a link to the Avatar homepage http://www.nick.com/shows/avatar/index.jhtml, but you do have to click on 1 or 2 at the top of the map to get out of hte FN map

Avatar: The Last Airbender is an animated show on Nickelodeon. Unlike most Nick shows, this one is actually good,

:lol: Are there any unique UU/UB and techs? And is it Vanilla compatibale?

You should add a metal near Ba Singe Se.
You should place coal in the FN.
Barbs should be in the Great Divide.
It would be really cool if you added unique units, but more than one. Fire Nation with Seige or Dragon Riders or obviously benders.
Wonders like Wall of Ba Singe Se.
Congrats, though You beat me to it though, I was going to get around to doing this! As many others have said, I'd be glad to try to help I know a little on modding and alot on the show.

I really like the map and look forward to it being a mod

Water bending started at the north pole
Earth bending was taught to a couple from 2 fueding villages by Badgermoles, the two fueding cities were later compined to form Omashu, yet the Earth Kingdom Capitol was Ba Sing Sa.
I don't know the origins of Fire Bending adn Air bending.
Here's a link to the Avatar homepage http://www.nick.com/shows/avatar/index.jhtml, but you do have to click on 1 or 2 at the top of the map to get out of hte FN map


original firebending learned by the sun warriors from the dragons
airbending learned thru skybison

I saw that episode earlier this week.
I'm excited about the 2 hour long Season Fanale tonight!!!!:D:D:D

The movie was awesome and I wish this map would work.

For my reaction to the show and the finale, see my sig. :)

What's happening with this scenario? I can't download it. Is it in the process of being updated and that's why I can't download it? Will it be available soon? I was thinking about building my own Avatar scenario but getting this would be a great shortcut since building scenarios is time consuming and difficult, in addition i'm not very experienced at it.

This thread is dead. :(

Yeah, pretty much.

It is kind of sad

If I can't reach NamesAreUseless in getting this map I just remembered that perhaps I can get it from somebody else in this thread. DroopyTofu and NarutoAvatarDBZ, do either of you have a copy of this map from when it was available online? I see that both of you are earlier in this thread and sounds like both of you downloaded the map, at least DroopyTofu did. Maybe you can make a link in the thread, e-mail somehow or something.

No. I can't download anything off of this website. I don't know why; I've tried everything I can think of. Sorry.

It sounded like you had a copy in your posts. You weren't saying "can't download" but maybe you were just anticipating the download links to come back and were looking forward to it. Well maybe NarutoAvatarDBZ has a copy of the map from months ago at the time the download links worked. NamesAreUseless might've taken his map offline because he was going to abandon it. That isn't fair, or something happened to the links I don't know. Would it be silly to ask any of the first people who posted in this thread if they have a copy of this map from the time the links worked?

Ummmmm ... hi ...

Yeah I been gone awhile, and people want my map. No I didn't personally take it down or anything, not sure why people can't download it anymore. I think I remember hearing about the databse going down some time ago and wiping out a good deal of uploaded content. Anyways, I plan on updating this map (I made this map before Season 3 ended, so I want to make a few changes to it).

Oh, and I stand by what I mentioned in my first post: if anyone knows the technique to add an extra leader to a civilization: please tell me and I'll try my best to do so :)

I also want to make a few balancing changes as well. Water Tribe probably needs more resources, as does the Fire Nation if we want a more show-accurate rendering of them (yes I know how all nations were balanced long before the war). Last I remember playing my map as the Air Nomads, the Earth Kingdom dominated and had the Fire Nation and had them as a vassal :eek:

And someone asked why the Water Nation starts in the north pole: The SWT is made up of NWT members who traveled to the south pole, NWT contains the bigger city (even if we look at the older SWT before it was attacked by the FN), etc.

If any of you are wondering, the Air Nation starts in the Southern Temple area because ... well no good reason really, but Aang's from there and it makes this placement pattern work out nicely:

Water Nation: North
Fire Nation: West
Earth Nation: East
Air Nation: South

Oh, and the Airbender leader Pasang was a senior counciler there. Hes not mentioned in the show, but I found him in some Avatar wikia on the net, and hes supposed to be the highest in the Southern Temple council.


I'll still take comments and critiques though:

You should add a metal near Ba Singe Se.
What kind of metal?
You should place coal in the FN.
Will do! :goodjob:
Barbs should be in the Great Divide.
I don't remember any barbs in the Great Divide, just Canyon Crawlers.
It would be really cool if you added unique units, but more than one. Fire Nation with Seige or Dragon Riders or obviously benders.
Wonders like Wall of Ba Singe Se.
That would be more like a mod. I don't plan on making an Avatar mod, as I'm way too busy.
Congrats, though You beat me to it though, I was going to get around to doing this! As many others have said, I'd be glad to try to help I know a little on modding and alot on the show.
Well its a pretty old congrats, but I'll take it anyways :lol:

You've been gone for a long time were you on a long vacation? What happened? I can't really imagine all that time away from your computer and this site. Well i've got some suggestions for you. The map looks great but there are some innaccuracies in the map. The fire nation is missing the Great Gates of Azulon land feature and some of the rivers are either too wide or too narrow (Civ 4 river features) in comparison to the Avatar map. There may be some more inaccuracies but don't really notice any right now. I don't have a copy of your map but it looks and sounds like the scenario begins with only settlers of the four nations and no cities and man-made land features like farms and cottages. Maybe you can make a version of this map with all four nations fully developed like how they were at the start of the war, though you would need to do some modding to make it so the fire nation is a raging civilization wanting to conquer the world but I know you can't mod right now. Anyways whatever happened to that guy that was supposed to help you mod this map? and when do you think the updated map will become available for download?

You've been gone for a long time were you on a long vacation? What happened? I can't really imagine all that time away from your computer and this site.
I don't really have an excuse, I just did. This wouldn't be my first time leaving for an extended period and coming back on these forums :blush:

Well i've got some suggestions for you. The map looks great but there are some innaccuracies in the map. The fire nation is missing the Great Gates of Azulon land feature and some of the rivers are either too wide or too narrow (Civ 4 river features) in comparison to the Avatar map. There may be some more inaccuracies but don't really notice any right now. I don't have a copy of your map but it looks and sounds like the scenario begins with only settlers of the four nations and no cities and man-made land features like farms and cottages. Maybe you can make a version of this map with all four nations fully developed like how they were at the start of the war, though you would need to do some modding to make it so the fire nation is a raging civilization wanting to conquer the world but I know you can't mod right now.
Like I said, I'm not planning to make an Avatar mod. I did long ago, like how I originally planned an Arda mod before the Avatar mod, and both projects fell apart (the Avatar mod never really came to start up at all really). Needless to say, I should stay away from trying to start mods and breaking people's hopes. In this case, I just wanted to make this cool map :crazyeye:

About the rivers: yeah I have a bit of a problem with them too. I may fix them, I may not. The rivers on the Avatar map seem BIG, and representing some as an Ocean tile seemed appropriate at the map-making time. Again, I may fix it.

Its just a map with the Native Americans (as the Water Nation), India (Air Nomads), China (Earth Kingdom), and Japan (Fire Nation), with the initial 1 Warrior and 1 Settler start-up and regular game tech tree that we're all familiar with. Only things changed are the nation names, colors, and leaders to match the show. Sorry, but there are no Avatar models here on the boards to download, so I have no new units to add in.

Anyways whatever happened to that guy that was supposed to help you mod this map? and when do you think the updated map will become available for download?
The dude only has two post on these forums. Talked to him once or twice on MSN and havent seen him since. I dont know if he even knew HOW to mod.

It'll be done when its done. The more changes that are planned, the longer it'll take. Could be done late tonight, tomorrow, any time. But I promise to upload it as soon as I finish it.

Like I said, I'm not planning to make an Avatar mod. I did long ago, like how I originally planned an Arda mod before the Avatar mod, and both projects fell apart (the Avatar mod never really came to start up at all really). Needless to say, I should stay away from trying to start mods and breaking people's hopes. In this case, I just wanted to make this cool map :crazyeye:

Its just a map with the Native Americans (as the Water Nation), India (Air Nomads), China (Earth Kingdom), and Japan (Fire Nation), with the initial 1 Warrior and 1 Settler start-up and regular game tech tree that we're all familiar with. Only things changed are the nation names, colors, and leaders to match the show.

I know you're not planning to make an Avatar mod but you don't need to mod in order to create fully developed four nations. You could do it in World Builder. Modding is for customizing the rules, traits, programming, etc. World Builder is for creating land, forest, ice, cities, people, etc. :)

I know you're not planning to make an Avatar mod but you don't need to mod in order to create fully developed four nations.
Sounds like modding to me. Each nation would need their own bender unit and such.

You could do it in World Builder. Modding is for customizing the rules, traits, programming, etc. World Builder is for creating land, forest, ice, cities, people, etc. :)
The only thing I could do is place down the cities in their respective places and have the regular civ game go from there. Already there is a massive balance problem, as the Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation would easily have the most, ripping the Water Tribe and Air Nomads apart.

I'll keep the sides as they are right now. Feel free to change the map as you wish once I have it uploaded on the forums (just remember to credit me ;)).

I've already fixed the river issue that NarutoAvatarDBZ mentioned before (where I had ocean tiles in place of rivers). The only thing I really need to do with the map now is place some more resources (not sure if I want to include "modern" resources like Uranium and Aluminum in case a civ game on this map goes on for too long).

Do you think you could put in the Great Gates of Azulon isthmus infront of the Fire Nation capitol?

Do you think you could put in the Great Gates of Azulon isthmus infront of the Fire Nation capitol?
Well I don't plan on adding in any custom buildings or units, so no, sorry :(

Like I've said, once the map is uploaded, feel free to edit it and add in custom content :D

Not a building but an isthmus land in-front of the Fire Nation capitol that stands as the Great Gates. You could see it in the Avatar map. Actually it's not in the Avatar map. I just noticed that. It's in the Fire Nation map on the Avatar page in the Nickelodeon site and it's really a peninsula that almost touches the northern bay coast. It was also shown on a map in the Black Sun episode.

Like I've said, once the map is uploaded, feel free to edit it and add in custom content :D

Ok.

Ok I got good news and bad news.

Good News: I'm almost done with updating the map; I've dubbed it v1.2 and the map is looking even better then what it originally was :D

Bad News: I can't start up my game anymore. I keep getting some crap about an "Initialize Render Failed" error and I used to NEVER have one problem with this game before. Its been coming up more and more, and quicker and quicker. I'm at the point I can't even get to the main menu :sad:

I could release what I have now, but I wanna at least try it out some before then. I'm going to ask in the Technical forums if they have a solution. Man this sucks that I can't get the game started anymore! :mad:

EDIT: Nevermind, its working right now. Dunno if I'll still have this problem. Anyways, I've uploaded version 1.2! Comments and criticisms are always welcome :)